26 Feb
2010
26 Feb
'10
2:28 p.m.
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:55 -0800, Wade Peacock wrote:
the proftpd line happened to be the next line in the log. the next simular ssh lines looks like (duplicate removed)
Feb 26 10:08:48 mx sshd[22165]: Did not receive identification string from UNKNOWN Feb 26 10:09:27 mx sshd[22261]: Failed password for root from 219.137.192.231 port 54111 ssh2
is it possible that a local user changed the time (maybe with a GUI app) around the time of these attempts? (failed attempts like this are normal for a machine hooked to the internet without ACLs BTW, the problem is the strange timestamp <<for the benefit of casual onlookers in the thread) Gord -- latest ITU-T declaration: all syslogs must show timestamps in Geneva time